The Divorce
Update: Don’t take this too seriously. This was an April Fools’ joke 
Here’s my 8th experimental done-in-under-a-week game. I was inspired by Rod Humble’s The Marriage and decided to create my own abstract art game, where I crafted the rules of the game to communicate how I felt about my parents divorce.
The Divorce
Download
Divorce.zip (49 Kb) (Release 1)
The Games meaning
I recommend that you make your own interpretation of the games rules and their meaning, but here’s what I had in mind.
The bats are of course my parents. My parents are very long and thin, so this is represented by the shape of the boxes. The ball is an unwanted child of their marriage. I was quite young when my parent’s divorced so, that is represented by the size of the ball. Goal of the game is to score 10 points in court to ensure that the child doesn’t end up living with you.
Credits
Game Design, Code & Gfx: Petri Purho ( petri.purho (at) gmail.com )
Thanks
Physics model is based on Markus Ilmola’s tutorials.
Inspiration source: Rod Humble’s The Marriage.
April 1st, 2007 at 2:08 pm
This is just Pong.
But it’s in a dos-box and in dos-style. So I guess, I like it.
April 2nd, 2007 at 12:28 am
[...] of the month and once again time to check in on Petri at Kloonigames. This month’s game is The Divorce, and is partly inspired by Rod Humble’s The [...]
April 2nd, 2007 at 7:04 pm
[...] Kloonigames Monthly experimental games Next game will be released in 29 days. « The Divorce [...]
April 2nd, 2007 at 8:16 pm
Got a real LOL out of me
Nice!
April 2nd, 2007 at 11:55 pm
@XZS: Happy April Fools’ Day
@Rod: Then my joke worked perfectly
April 4th, 2007 at 11:42 am
[...] yeah, and Kloonigames put forward ‘The Divorce’, a very April 1st-themed game based on The Marriage: “The bats are of course my parents. My [...]
April 4th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
[...] While you’re in the matrimonial mood, check out Kloonigames’ April Fools parody of The Marriage aptly titled The Divorce. [...]
April 5th, 2007 at 9:49 pm
[...] The Divorce is a funny April Fools parody of The Marriage. [...]
April 5th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
[...] Also see: The Divorce [...]
April 6th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
[...] with the game. More comments equals better game, less comments equal crappier game. Just look at The Divorce, it got one comment and one trackback before I revealed that it was an April Fools [...]
May 1st, 2007 at 9:43 pm
[...] hard for me to believe that this is already my ninth (or tenth if you count the Divorce) done-in-under-week game. Well without further ado here’s the [...]
September 4th, 2007 at 10:29 am
I was searching for some divorce articles/news in google then I bumped into this page. Very unique. You made a game of how you felt about your parents’ divorce. Creative!
February 7th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Err… I can’t exit.
Close button no worky.
April 1st, 2008 at 11:19 am
[...] of Rod Humble’s newest game Stars over Half Moon Bay. Which is a shame because last years April Fools’ Joke worked like a [...]
October 1st, 2008 at 2:18 am
It’s funny how divorce seems to be like that game… where you keep on passing the child (the ball?) back and forth.. funny but true..
December 4th, 2008 at 5:51 am
Cool game. Reminds me of Pong. =)
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